Weekly Highlights: 04/19/2017

Earth Day Resources

Is it possible that we are nearing the half-century mark for the
expansion of the Clean Air and Water Act and the celebration of Earth
Day? Fond personal memories surround the first celebration of Earth Day
on April 22, 1970. Our school cancelled classes to allow students to
clean up our Montana hometown and the surrounding hills. The local
garbage company donated their services to remove the resulting mountains
of trash. The day ended as it should for high school kids - with
grilled hot dogs and an outdoor rock concert. Simpler times, perhaps,
but the legislative push to engage students' energy into an awareness
and concern for the environment was memorably achieved.

The Library of Congress holdings include visuals and documents to
illustrate the longstanding love of the land in this country and the
work of preservationists, conservationists, environmentalists to protect
it.